Roger Vose

Roger Vose ( born February 24, 1763 in Milton, Massachusetts, † October 26, 1841 in Walpole, New Hampshire ) was an American politician. Between 1813 and 1817 he represented the State of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Already in 1766 came with his parents to Roger Vose Walpole in New Hampshire. Until 1790, he studied at Harvard University. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1793 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Walpole.

Politically, Vose member of the Federalist Party, founded by Alexander Hamilton. In the years 1809, 1810 and 1812, he was each member of the Senate of New Hampshire. In the congressional elections of 1812, which were held all across the state, he was the fourth parliamentary seat from New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1813, the successor of John Adams Harper of the Democratic- Republican Party. After a re-election in 1814 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1817 two coherent legislative periods. His first term was overshadowed by the events of the British - American War, during which the British occupied the meantime Washington.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1818 Vose was a deputy in the House of Representatives from New Hampshire in the year. Between 1818 and 1820 he was a judge of a court of appeal and 1820-1825 he was the presiding judge of the Court of Sessions of New Hampshire. He then worked again as a lawyer. Roger Vose died on October 26, 1841 in Walpole, and was also buried there.